Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation Communications

This book provides the first overview of the service technologies
available to telecoms operators working in a post-convergence
world. Previous books have focused either on computer networks or
on telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two together
and provide a single reference source for information that is
currently only to be found in disparate journals, tool
specifications and standards documents.
In order to provide such broad coverage of the topic in a
structured and logical fashion, the book is divided into 3
parts.
The first part looks at the underlying network support for services
and aims to explain the technology that makes the user-visible
services possible. This section covers multimedia networking, both
traditional (legacy) and future (softswitch) call processing,
intelligent networks, the Internet, and Wireless networks.
Part 2 deals with how these services may be analysed and managed.
Chapters cover topics such as commercial issues, service
management, quality of service, security, standards and APIs.
Part 3 concludes the book by looking ahead at evolving technologies
and more speculative possibilities, discussing the kinds of
services that may be possible in the future and the technologies
that will support them.
* Focuses is on how the technology supports the services, rather
than on technology for its own sake
* Contributors drawn from both academia and industry (companies
such as Marconi, BT, Telcordia, Cisco, Analysys) to give both
theoretical and real-world perspectives
* Unique singe-reference source for a wide range of material
currently found only in disparate papers, specs and
documentation
* Covers brand new technologies such as JAIN, JTAPI, Parlay, IP,
multimedia networking, active networks, WAP, wireless LANs,
agent-based services, etc.

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